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Noun Phrases

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Assalamualaikum wr wb. Anak-anak kali ini kita akan belajar tentang noum phrase. Apa itu noun phrase? Noun phrase adalah gabungan dari 2 kata atau lebih untuk menjelaskan sebuah kata benda. Penjelas tersebut bisa terletak sebelum atau sesudah kata benda tersebut. Apabila penjelas terletak sebelum kata benda maka disebut pre-modifiers. apabila penjelas terletak setelah kata benda maka disebut dengan post-modifiers. Berikut saya sebutkan contohnya :

Often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

People like to have money.
I am tired.

Premodifiers

But noun phrases can also include:

  • determiners:        Those houses are very expensive.
  • quantifiers:          I’ve lived in a lot of houses.
  • numbers:            My brother owns two houses.
  • adjectives:          I love old houses.   

These parts of the noun phrase are called premodifiers because they go before the noun.

We use premodifiers in this order:

determiners and quantifiers > numbers > adjectives + NOUNS

For example:

Determiners and quantifiers Numbers Adjectives NOUNS
The six children
Our young children
Six young children
These six young children
Some young children
All those six young children
Their many young children

Postmodifiers

Other parts of a noun phrase go after the noun. These are called postmodifiers.

Postmodifiers can be:

  • prepositional phrases:

a man with a gun
the boy in the blue shirt
the house on the corner

the man standing over there
the boy talking to Angela

the man we met yesterday
the house that Jack built
the woman who discovered radium
an eight-year-old boy who attempted to rob a sweet shop

  • that clauses. These are very common after nouns like ideafactbeliefsuggestion:

He’s still very fit, in spite of the fact that he’s over eighty.
She got the idea that people didn’t like her.
There was a suggestion that the children should be sent home.

I’ve got no decent shoes to wear.

These are very common after indefinite pronouns and adverbs:

You should take something to read.
I need somewhere to sleep.

There may be more than one postmodifier:

an eight-year old boy with a gunwho tried to rob a sweet shop
that girl over there in a green dressdrinking a Coke

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